Re: [squid-users] redirect to an ip when request comes on port xxx

"Andreas Schlager" <aschlager@kaindl.com> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> I have a very weried problem:
>
> I want to do the following: If the squid-proxy receives a request
> from a specified ip-address on a specified port, the request should
> be redirected to an outside IP-address with an other port.
>
> The background is this: I use a software for electronic banking, and
> this software does speak a own protocol. The only possibility to use
> this over a proxy is to send f.e. a request to the proxy on port
> 1234, and the proxy knows, that it has to redirect to outside ip
> 11.12.13.14, port 3456.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
> I only hear from the software-vendor, "for M$-proxy and consorts this
> aint no problem" - and I really hate this!

Set up 11.12.13.14:3456 as a cache_peer and restrict what it gets
queried for with cache_peer_access.

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